RE: [Harp-L] Re: work Song

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That explains why it never bothered me much. I heard the Butterfield
version long before I tracked down the original (in fact the Butterfied
version was why discovered the Adderly Brothers and fell deeply in love:))




> The reason to require the missing note is that it is the "leading tone",
> the
> strongest cadence in all of music.
> If it hadn't been in the original, you wouldn't miss it--but that is the
> "hook" of the tune, with the rest of it being very pentatonic.  The other
> hook is the flat five in the last part of the melody (bar 11-12--it's the
> "and" of 4 in bar 11).
> Gary